By TK Logan, Robert, Jordan, Carol E. Walker, Carl G. Leukefeld
Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington. deals a serious literature overview of study on violence and victimization in ladies. subject matters coated contain social components, scientific interventions, way of life elements, justice approach responses, and inner contextual elements. for college students and practitioners.
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Although not all are affected, women with intimate partner victimization consistently report more symptoms of depression than do other women (Arias, Lyons, & Street, 1997; J. , 1995; Ratner, 1993). Rates of depression can vary depending on the specific samples used to estimate prevalence. For example, in community samples of women with intimate-partner violence experiences, 39% to 55% reported current depression or depression symptoms (J. , 1999) compared with 68% to 69% of shelter samples reporting current depression (R.
Bremner, Scott, et al. (1993) found that individuals with PTSD scored lower in measures of total recall, short-term memory, and long-term memory. However, McNally (2003b) questioned these studies with respect to the accuracy of findings about recall disorders among trauma victims and questioned whether cognitive impairments such as memory problems might precede PTSD or even whether cognitive impairments may be risk factors for the clinical disorder. In VICTIMIZATION MANIFESTATIONS 41 fact, cognitive ability is rarely assessed among trauma subjects in studies of memoral difficulties associated with trauma and traumatic events (McNally, 2003b).
These rates are higher than rates in samples of women from the general population that include women with and without victimization experiences. , 1994; Kessler, Sonnega, Bromet, Hughes, & Nelson, 1995). , 1998a; Resick, 1993). In fact, a recent study compared women who had no childhood sexual abuse but who had been raped as adults and had successfully prosecuted their offenders (90% of whom were raped by strangers) with women who had experienced life-threatening but nonsexual stressful events such as physical attacks and robberies (Faravelli, Giugni, Salvatori, & Ricca, 2004).